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Friday, December 3, 2010

Diciembre

Well this has been a very interesting week. I never told you guys but about a month ago something appeared on the bottom of my foot. For a long time I was looking for a rock in my shoe and never found one. Then I found it on the bottom of my foot. So I asked Hermana Clark when we were together and she said that she thought it was a planters wart. So I told the nurse and then things got busy but I was finally able to go to the doctor today. And he said that it wasn´t a wart but it was just dead skin underneath my skin that was just a ball and so it feels like a little rock. He said that he could cut it out and so he did but then he said that it would just grow back and so he froze it too. And now I am free of my little rock but now I have a whole in my foot and it hurts! But he said that it shouldn´t hurt too much after the week end. And I can still walk fine with a little limp. But I will adjust. Hermana Salazar said that I finally went to the ¨patologo¨ (for those of you who remember my story the other week). So that is what we did this morning. It was a very thrilling morning out and about. But it was enjoyable.

Our cook is named Jenny and she is also a recent convert from August decided that she wanted to go out with us and so she got a taxi and we went to my appointment and then we ate lunch at Burger King. Mom asked me about the Christmas decorations here. Some people do decorate and it is really pretty but not nearly as elaborate as in the states. But every time we walk past a house with Christmas lights or a tree, Hermana Salazar and I look at it longingly. So, today we also went to a store that is the same idea of a dollar store or really a place that sells cheap junk and we bought a little Christmas tree and some cheap lights that might break before we get home. But now we can have a little bit of Christmas in our house. Weather wise, it is still hot. I am surprised it is still hot too. People had always said that December and January are cold months but I don´t know what they were talking about. Sometimes it feels slightly brisk but normally it is just hot.

We have had some really great experiences this week. I think I have told you about Clara. She is an investigator that we have been teaching for a while that still hasn´t been able to go to church. On Saturday we taught her and she accepted a baptismal date in December. She told us that she was talking to her mom about the church and invited her to go. She said that she wanted to tell her mom that her church wasn´t true but didn´t have the heart to do it. Clara has only one problem....she isn´t married to her companion. We told her that she has to get married first but she has really put her mind of getting baptized the 18th of December and I know that she can do it. And she was going to go to church on Sunday but then she had a fight with her boyfriend so she was going to leave him but then came back the next day.

So, things are coming right along. We had a second meeting for the new missionaries and then we had a multizone conference and so I feel like we have been in meetings all week long but it is not true. We are excited for the holiday season. Now we can decorate our little house. Oh, that´s the other thing that happened this week is we changed houses. We finally found a little apartment and we went to see it with the zone leaders and they signed for it. So we are now in a cute little apartment that is a lot nicer. We still don´t have a big mirror but we are surviving with little make up mirrors. Well, I love you all so much!